Hawaii · Nonprofit
KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC
KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,273 to it, the largest being HT HAYASHI FOUNDATION ($140,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $575k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $568k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc does
Mission
In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`I na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. From that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide opportunities for hawaii's keiki, regardless of nationality, to showcase hula, hawaiian language and culture. The most visible example of their efforts is represented by what is now recognized internationally as the queen lili'uokalani keiki hula competition. Over the past 45 years kcpas estimates that kpcas have hosted over 25,000 children who have danced on our stage. Kpcas has also expanded its mission over the years to provide ethnic dance at nominal and sometimes no cost at various community centers; hula, filipino folk, okinawan, and american dance to the hawai`I community with nominal costs. Kpcas continues to support its mission to promote hula literacy in hawai`I and abroad with its keiki hula annual language scholarship award. Kpcas has most
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kalihi-palama culture and arts society, inc. (kpcas) program services include nearly 1,000 children serviced annually with free after-school activities. The organization provides hula, filipino folk, okinawan, and american dance to the hawai`I community with nominal costs. Kpcas continues to support hula literacy in hawai`I and abroad with its keiki hula international exchange program established in 2004. Kpcas presents two major annual cultural events open to the public. The queen lili`uokalani keiki hula competition (keiki hula) and the malia craver hula kahiko competition are recognized as distinguished events that promote hula preservation from a local to international perspective. The malia craver hula kahiko competition was established in 1988. It is a showcase amongst hawai`I's secondary school students in their achievements of song and dance. The first queen lili`uokalani keiki hula competition was instituted in 1976. Since then the competition now reaches approximately 500 keiki hula participants with an audience over one million annually. Kpcas acknowledges excellence in hula preservation by providing trophies and monetary awards. Kpcas also recognizes each year one…
$580,184 spentof which $11,500 as grants$149,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $580,184.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $32k to $122k (+286%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2022 58% · 2023 50% · 2024 21% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $98k → $191k.
From the IRS filings of KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 83% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC?
- KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,273 to it, the largest being HT HAYASHI FOUNDATION ($140,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $568,273 in grants to KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC?
- HT HAYASHI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing